we saw to get up to 1600 once again and i look for it to go higher. >> jim, the house reconvenes sunday night. the senate squabbling right now. the president's back in town. how are you trading or investing in this market in the meantime? >> well, bill, i thought it was difficult to underestimate the ability for congress to underdeliver. but here we are again. >> yes. >> our best case is, we probably thought it was going to go into the, go past the new year and i think that's what we're going to see. so, we'll probably tech nick little go over the cliff but we won't stay over and it's probably maybe even better off that we get a new congress looking at the prospects of a deal. there is a deal out there as opposed to the lame duck session. we'll probably have some volatile till but i think those are buying opportunities and we expect a better 2013. >> what kind of buying opportunities? what would you be looking to buy? >> well, certainly the sectors that have done well, i think, continue to be the financials. you look at consumer discretionary in here, which could take a hit and a

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carried over there as well. the dax is higher by 2%. italy up 3.5%. but of course, jim, what a two-day streak of gains we will see here on the market. >> i think that we're set up to go higher. i also want to caution -- i don't like to buy up 2%, 3%. that's never been a terrific way to get the year started. there's a lot of money coming in. i do want to be optimistic about 2013, because i felt that what was going to happen was capital gains could go up more, defense could go up a lot more. i was fearful going over the cliff. i can immediately switch to the debt ceiling and be negative and want to cry. but i want to focus on the fact that we got something good that happened. i know no one liked the deal. that's what happens. that's what compromise is about. >> exactly. >> you're not supposed to like a compromise deal. >> i agree. listen, it's a time to be optimistic. i love the tweet this morning that let's put d.c. on the back burner a bit, and put the stock price where it's supposed to be, which is future earnings. >> we'll get there in one 1/2 months when the sequester is over, w

." hope you all had a good christmas. i'm melissa lee. we're live from the new york stock exchange. jim cramer has the day off. the latest s&p schiller home price report has been released. the results being shown at the bottom of your screen. david blitzer will join us with a closer look at the numbers in just a few minutes. let's get a check on how we're setting up on this day after christmas trading session. the dow looking higher by about 15 points. s&p looking at about two points at the open. european markets closed on this day after christmas. the uk and france among those celebrating foxing day. we start off with, what else, retail. dips in spending in the mid-atlantic and northeast regions. luxury sales also weak. >> we're coming off the worst christmas eve for the dow since 2006. as the president cuts short his hawaiian vacation to deal with the fiscal cliff, just five days to go until we go over. >> threatening both coasts with workers snubbing up best and final contract offer. >> and more on the home front. we'll have more on the data and whether it can keep one of the best pe

. i'm jim axelrod. a lot of holiday plans are out the window tonight due to a powerful storm system that stranded travelers on highways and at airports. it's blamed in at least six deaths. in the south, there are reports that 41 tornadoes have touched down since yesterday. one of them sheered off the front of the trinity episcopal church in mobile, alabama. luckily, no one was injured. the same system brought a blizzard to parts of the midwest, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,400 flights. tonight, it's headed to the northeast. winter storm warnings have already been posted. troy kehoe of our cbs station in indianapolis begins our coverage. troy? >> reporter: well, jim, here in bloomington, indiana, we've already seen 11.5 inches of snow so far, and it is still coming down with blizzard conditions here in the midwest. this has been a two-day storm leaving much of the country paralyzed. blinding snow with wind gusts topping 35 miles an hour have created whiteout conditions in the plains in midwest. by midday, a half-foot of snow had already fallen in indianapolis. george cummings h

that person as the store owner, jim butler. police said butler and philip got into an altercation inside the business, and philip was eventually shot. philip ran out of the business and collapsed in the parking lot. he has been having difficulties lately with people breaking into the store, which police have responded to. it is just someone broken and he was there. as far as philip, he had a vast criminal record, which included guilty pleas to second-degree assault, theft, drug offenses, and court appearances for in the same. so far, no charges have been filed in this case. >> authorities say they have recovered human remains where a trap was laid for firefighters in new york. officials believe the remains of the sister of the shooter. her younger brother is responsible for setting fires and ambushing first responders. the fund typewritten reports saying the shooter wanted to burn down the neighborhood, and saying, "i want to do what i do best -- killing people puzzle in connecticut today, police officers received a gift of time. other officers from across the state have stepped u

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." >>> good morning, welcome to "squawk on the street," i'm melissa lee with jim cramer and brian sullivan. carl quintanilla has the day off. what we saw yesterday earthquake the best day for the s & p and the nasdaq over a year. data out to contend with, an adp number in december, jobless claims, may be taking a breather in today's session, the dow looking to lose about 33 at the open. take a look at the picture in europe. does also look like europe is taking a breather. yesterday, it is worth noting the stock indices there hit 17-month highs. we are seeing a down day almost across the board a road map, starts with the new year's rally, where we go from here. the dow surging more than 300 points, closing at two 12 1/2-m highs yesterday. leadership from technology and financials, a boost today with upgrades. lots in the coming days. the big jobs report tomorrow. oh, yeah, the battle over the debt ceiling and spending cuts. retail do-or-die, december sales are out. standouts include costco, nordstrom and the gap. misses, target and the limited. starbucks wants to you recycle, selling reusab

session? we'll get the word from the street, that is next. and jim paulson tells us why he's expecting a 15 to 20% gain for the s&p 500 in 2013. looks like we're going to lose 10.5 on the s&p right at the open. more "squawk on the street," right ahead. p for an idea. a grand idea called america. the idea that if you work hard, if you have a dream, if you work with your neighbors... you can do most anything. this led to other ideas like liberty and rock 'n' roll. to free markets, free enterprise, and free refills. it put a man on the moon and a phone in your pocket. our country's gone through a lot over the centuries and a half. but this idea isn't fragile. when times get tough, it rallies us as one. every day, more people believe in the american idea and when they do, the dream comes true. we're grateful to be a part of it. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, a

this point gone up about $8.90, $1,664.80 an ounce. by the way, we have jim o'neill coming up in just a moment. we also have pimco's mow hammel el-erian. >>> steve sedgwick is standing by in london right now. how are things standing by there? >> it's a very quiet session as we saw last week on the u.s. and the european incidentsies. despite the fact that the vix in the united states and the v-stocks and the various volatility measures on this side of the atlantic remain elevated. despite that, we're not seeing a lot of oscillation on the back of, as you said, the fiscal cliff and concerns that we may fall off. does that mean that people are getting complacent? they think even though we might not get a deal in the next 24 hours, we will get a deal fairly imminently. in the meantime, though, this is what we've got in terms of the major european indices. that will open and the germans will come to that in a few minutes' time it has been up year-to-date around about 6% and that makes the ftse 100 a real lagger compared with some of its european peers. a laggard, as well, compared to

the throne at next year's christmas reunion. jim meceda, nbc news, london. >>> if you plan to head to the movie, you better make sure you have a little extra time because many of this season's blockbusters are clocking in at almost three hours. a report from hollywood. >> reporter: they are epic productions, earning oscar buzz. >> shall we stop this bleeding? >> reporter: this year's blockbusters have something else in common. you better block out three hours if you want to see one. as we approach the end of the year, hollywood's heavyweights are posting some hefty run times. spielberg's "lincoln" clocks in at 2 1/2 hours. "les miserables" is almost three hours. >> and a whop iping 2:49, "neverending." >> they should all be called the never ending story. >> one word of advice, go to the toilet before the movie started. >> reporter: why try to hold the moviegoers attention so long. many say blame it on oscar. there's a feeling in hollywood the academy won't take a best picture contender seriously if it's under two hours. this time of year, studios are racing to release these epics b

miller, rich grenell that served for four ambassadors and jim pinkerton and fox news political analyst. juan williams. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> we can now definitively say that president barack obama will be re-elected, mitt romney will come up a loser in this race. >> jon: the billing media story of the year, the presidential election. that was how it ended. barack obama beating mitt romney and an end to a bitter season that started early with the g.o.p. primaries and events like this. >> we saw some of this black church in south carolina where a woman asked you why you referred a president obama as the food stamp president. it sounds as if you are suitcase to go belittle people. >> first of all, juan, the fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by barack obama than any president in american history. [ cheers and applause ] >> i know among the political kli correct and i'm supposed to you use facts that are uncomfortable. [ laughter ] >> so that was just part of a long and memorable primary season. juan, is that your highlight of the year. [ laug

fiscal cliff deal and jim necessariel is a former republican representative from iowa and the former director of office of management and budget and now president and c.o.o. of growth energy. >> how do you do all those things? >> good afternoon, gentlemen. i imagine you share mitch mcconnell's sentiment here of no more taxes, but would you at least make more concessions if it meant true entitlement reform? >> i don't have any reservations about the no new taxes of what needs to be done. higher taxes hurt the economy. the more you hurt the economy, the less economic activity there is. fewer money being generated, lower taxes, so the solution to this is to grow the economy on the one hand or to have very significant spending cuts on the other. i agree with senator mitch mcconnell. if the president of the united states wants to talk about tax increases, look it up in the history books because it's not coming during 1913th session of the united states congress. >> how significant are the spending cuts that you're talking about? what would it take to get to you raise the debt ceiling? >>

storm. now, who is going to get slammed and when. in accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking that storm. jim, who is going to get it first? >> seeing the snow right now already across southern illinois and southern, indiana. with the storm, not packing the punch that its predecessor did but still a wide swath of snow across the ohio valley spreading its way north and eastward and then the cold front with the system putting down substantial rainfall. good news is nothing in the way of severe weather reports or reports of damage like we saw with the storm the day after christmas. moves east ward and the heavy rain tracking into the florida panhandle right now. reds and yellows marking the heaviest precipitation. with that further northward sold air in place. the heaviest band of snow the darking blue shade stretches from indianapolis down south of st. louis and that will move north and eastward as we head through the night. the first moves into pennsylvania and weakened and then transfer energy to a system that is going to roll up the coast but that happens too late for this to

extremely happy and very privileged to have mad money's jim cramer here. we have a lot of things to talk about with the fiscal cliff. do you feel we have solved anything or just basically pushed this cliff further down the road there for creating a bigger problem for policy makers down the line? >> no, i think we solved something. >> what did we solve? >> you asked about the idea that dividends, so important to capital formation for people at home. dividends are taxed low versus what we thought. capital gains going to stay in the game. not that bad. many incentives it stay in the stock market swrount otherwise and the stock mark set a great wealth creator. i think some things have been solved. i don't think it is as negative as some people have heard. >> we have had tough talk on show so far. lot of talk about debt. give us reason or reasons to be optimistic in this lucky 2013 year. >> okay, i believe there are tail winds that we came in with that are very strong. this housing situation remains strong. don't forget, i heard back and forth on sandy and whether there will be money com

equities are poised to do well this year. >> i talked with jim o'neill and he was saying he thinks this could be the year that the u.s. actually loses its leadership edge when it comes to bull markets and things going on. he thinks you handed it off to other countries overseas at this point. are you worried at all about that? >> i'm not. jim o'neill speaks from a different point of view than i would. maybity right in the thick of it down here. i'm a big believe in america. big believe in the markets. i have be a exposure to the markets like everybody does but i'm not ready to pass the mantle to somebody else. >> rich, we are talking about fighting the fed and what is bad idea that is. bonds are another market that people seem to not fight the fed but is this is the year that interest rates start higher? >> we don't know that. the fed is a huge elephant in the room and it is as long as they keep buying bonds, you don't have a problem. the thing that concerns me is that -- >> go ahead. >> the thing that concerns me is we borrow a trillion plus dollars a year, so if other members of the wo

christmas day outbreak. >> that was the weather channel's jim cantore right there and mike seidel reporting. in a few minutes, we'll have the forecast on where the storm is headed today. that's just ahead in weather. >>> but right now, unfortunately, we turn to politics. as if tax hikes and spending cuts weren't enough, there's a new reminder that the nation's debt ceiling is also hanging over the budget talks in washington. in a letter to congress yesterday, treasury secretary timothy geithner warned the government would hit its legal borrowing limit by monday. without the okay to borrow more, geithner says the treasury will be forced to take "extraordinary measures" to keep paying the bills. so, that makes the government like the rest of us. he also referenced the impending fiscal cliff, which threatens to derail the economy if a compromise isn't be reached by next week on those big, unanswered issues. with both sides locked in a standoff, house republicans are calling on senate democrats to act first. democrats aren't budging much on their demands. they want to extend tax cuts

evening. jim axelrod is off tonight. i'm rebecca jarvis. with just two days left, senate leaders are still struggling to put together a last minute bp deal ahead of monday's midnight deadline for the fiscal cliff. failure could kick the country back into a recession. wyatt andrews is on capitol hill. >> reporter: today the halls of the senate were almost empty, as proposals got traded in private and over the phone. senate minority leader much mcconnell tried to sound upbeat. going to get a deal today sir? >> hope. so. >> reporter: house speaker boehner came to the capitol but left without comment. issue number one in the talks is amending the bush era tax cuts, which if unchanged will expire and raise taxes on all americans. starting tuesday, the average tax hike will be three to 5% per person. >> let's keep taxes exactly where they are on the first $250,000 of everybody's income. >> reporter: the president campaigned to increase taxes only on families making more than $250,000 per year. almost two weeks ago, the president offered a compromise to raise taxes only on income above 400,

here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer, and i will see you monday. done. it's the right thing to do for our families, for our businesses and for our entire economy. but the hour for immediate action is here. it is now. >> the president correctly says the time for immediate action is now. apparently not his immediate action, though, with the nation facing a crippling fiscal cliff in just three days, the president calls congressional leaders together and says, you fix it. no, he doesn't offer any new plan from the white house, no compromise. instead the president tells the senate to come up with a deal and the same senate that hasn't passed a budget in years. and the marks don't like it at all, 158 points now tanking and falling further in the after market and we'll have to see how asia opens on monday. it could be ugly. the headlines are falling fast and furious. we're all over it "the kudlow report" starts right now. >>> welcome. i'm michelle caruso-cabrera in for larry kudlow. a lot happened in just the last couple of hours. >> michelle, there's considerably more optimism after the whi

, right here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer, and i'll see you tomorrow. >>> good evening. i'm michelle caruso-cabrera in for larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." speaker john boehner calls the house back into session for sunday night. that stokes investor hopes for a fiscal cliff deal and this coming just a few hours after harry reid's comments sent the dow into a tailspin. we have complete coverage in this developing story which is happening tonight as we speak. also, as supplies from the obama team, ep achieve lisa jackson stepping down. can the coal companies finally breathe a sigh of relief? guess what happened in britain when the uk banned handguns. the surprising result that could change the gun control debate. "the kudlow report" start ises right now. >>> the big news tonight, still the developments in washington on the fiscal cliff, eamon javers joins us with the details. >> good evening, meshel. capitol hill sources tell cnbc that congressional leaders are planning to go to the white house tomorrow to meet with president barack obama and it is not entirely clear at this

highest level in two months. jim murio is at the cme and anthony grizmante is at the nymex. >> jackie, it's short covering coming into the market. i ran you naval exercises on the straits of hormuz. you have obama coming back from his vacation to deal with the fiscal cliff. we have low volume situation which moves a little bit more exaggerated. i'm not putting a lot of stock into this move. i think it's a little overdone. >> jim, good to see you for a second time today. you're looking at the chart of crude. technically speaking how important is the move in your view? >> well, this is funny. you started out the conversation with saying how significant is the move? that's what i've been dealing with all day. you look at the chart. we've been in a pretty well defined trend channel for a month or so. right now we've come to the top of it. the market is telling us the news out of the middle east and the news on the fiscal cliff is a pretty big deal. now it's decision time. is it big enough to take it above 91.25 and settle there? if it can't do that, it will be considered a failure. i want

just saw harris jim swayze was walking four dogs. one of the dogs ran into the ice and fell through holding himself up with just front paws. jim swayze went after the dogs but the ice kept breaking away. he called 911. then called his cousin who is san animal control officer. the cousin's boyfriend showed up. went after the dog and right as he reached ice broke away. and he got stuck in the mud below and had to wait an hour for firefighters to arrive. listen. the big concern was the dog. they the dog had been in the without for why quite a while. the amount of time spent in the water is very short lived. you can't spent a lot of time in these cold temperatures and hope to survive. the rescue actually went pretty quickly. >> it went quickly but all tolled it still took an hour and a half before they pulled bart out of that water, harris. >> harris: that's a long time to be in the water. how is the dog doing? the hound dog is doing fine now. but bart is 11 years old. first the vet was very worried about him. they rapid him up in electric blanket very slowly to warm the dog up slowly.

futures now. jim is at the cme in chicago anthony at the nymex in new york. let's zoom out for a second. what does the cliff actually mean for treasuries? >> i think if we go over the cliff you're going to see treasuries a lot higher. we'll probably test about that 1.5% yield in that. if you look at what happened today they're talking about a mini deal. treasuries didn't even move. you would think there would be a selloff a little bit in the futures alone and there wasn't. the market is looking for something more substantial, a little more substance. they're also looking for some kind of talk about what they're going to do with the debt ceiling. until we get those things i still think you can be in treasuries. >> okay. looks like investors are going to pile in as long as the uncertainty is out there. jim, what about you? would you get into bonds here? >> no. not at all. actually i'm taking the other side. i adopted a negative bias yesterday because to me it still looks like a corrective channel from the big drop over the last couple weeks. now it certainly is testing my resolve as the m

several homes. weather channel's jim cantore live for us in mobile and joins us now. obviously, the sun is out and completely different now but explain why the monster system brought such a different batch of unexpected weather to certain places. >> reporter: well, we haven't had any big cold air masses in the east. so, you know, unless the gulf which is our fuel source is cooled off by a cold front, we can just take it as much as we want and that's what this storm did. came down, scooped up moisture, got warm and the jet stream came over and tornadoes that caused damage. this is a parish here, this is a an episcopal church. looking at the roof damage. you see a couple pieces of roof gone. that's not too bad. look how massive the church is and the top layer here, completely twisted by the tornado. all right? so that's going to have to be removed and rebuilt in through here. trees, power lines, damaged throughout mobile. we may have a four to five-mile path here but alabama power have been out all evening and morning getting some 40,000 people back online. 40,000. think about it. it'

hold you over, here are some of jim's best moments in 2012. >> next thing you know, i'm covering sports in tallahassee. >> there you go. you look good in that polyester. >> it was a corduroy suit that i got. >> you were in florida. ooh. >> felt like sweatpants. >> i need freedom of movement. sherri wakes me up every morning. >> how does she wake you up? >> she has no morning breath. i'm actually kind of a gandhi-like figure these days. divided by ten, it's a 50 -- ah! it's a $58 stock for goodness sakes. i'm sick of this. give me my telestrator. what the heck. i'm going to go home and learn the no-pick circle draw. the circle draw. look at this. >> let me do a super-cal i straighter on r.i.m. >> did you get that? >> down here. >> i've got to go commando here. it's down here. that's where it is. all work and no play makes jack a very dull boy. >> there you go. it may be the 17 sued a feds i took before the show. >> oh, the memories. good times, right? >> when he's gone, you really miss him. >> he'll be back on wednesday, in time to trade the fiscal cliff. all right. the deadline, of cour

father-in-law jim lemarca and the cast of his book, "bonus time." it's sort of like "zero dark 30" kind of sort of. >> that will do it for "power lunch." >> "street signs" begins right now. >>> there is a full cornucopia of cliffs on this fiscal friday. the president plans to pop another tax proposal on congress, but will it pass? the clack is ticking. latest ahead. >>> so what would a cliff jump really mean for american business? you will hear directly as we reconvene our exclusive small biz all-star panel. >>> plus, call it the retail hu "hunger games." three companies that may not survive. >>> predictions 2013. big calls for the new year, mandy. >>> bring it on. the s&p 500 is on track for a fifth straight decline. some of the hope does seem to be coming out of the market of late for a deal. of course, there could still be time. nonetheless, what we have seen is a drop of 1.3% so far this week. indead, the s&p's longest losing streak in three months. even the good news on home sales. not helping the three major averages which are on pace for their biggest weekly drop in six weeks. ke

, tying themselves to the mast. one of the more conservative republicans, jim jordan, told me the only thing worst than defense cuts are no cuts at all. that said, you can delay the impact of see questions administrati -- see quest administration. it will take them time to come up with the cuts over the course of the fiscal year. that said -- because we never passed the budget but only continuing resolution, we've only got until about march to figure out how to deal with that problem. >> you better believe that there are a lot of democrats in states like california, virginia, florida, in the senate and the house who don't want to see those defense cuts either because, boy, those are big employers. let me grill on one thing and that is this, tax rates are scheduled to go up anyway next year because of surcharges on medicare and a payroll tax surcharge because of obama care, am i right on that? >> you're right. if you look at it, incomes are really going to go back to where they were during the meltdown. the american economy will not have moved forward for many households. >> and the pay

through. jim frederick, thanks for joining us tonight. >>> up next, an attempted coup if you will. to derail a movement off the tracks. although i think they have a lot of influence. look at the cliff. the tea party will not act to keep the government going. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> still no word on who may i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. aww man. [ male announcer ] returns are easy with free pickup from the u.s. postal service. we'll even drop off boxes if you need them. visit usps.com pay, print, and have it picked up for free. any time of year. ♪ nice sweater. thank you. ♪ >>> still no word on who may inherit john kerry's senate seat now that he's been nominated for secretary of state. we know who won't. ted kennedy jr. says he won't run for the massachusetts

got through. jim frederick, thanks for joining us tonight. >>> up next, an attempted coup if you will. to derail a movement off the tracks. although i think they have a lot of influence. look at the cliff. the tea party will not act to keep the government going. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> still no word on who may inherit john kerry's senate seat now that he's been nominated tr secretary of state. we know who won't. ted kennedy jr. says he won't run for the massachusetts seat because he considers connecticut his home. >>> and it looks like ben affleck is sticking to life in hollywood instead of heading to washington. the star of argo, a great movie, says that he quote, loves the political process but i'm not running for office. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c'mon, michael! get in the game! [ male announcer ] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just be getting older. you might have a treatable condition called low tes

, january 3rd. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we've got the host of cnbc's "mad money," jim cramer and also msnbc political analyst, john heilemann. i thought we were going to wait longer before he came back. alex, next time talk to me first. msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst, mark halperin, who does "way too early" very well. >> does it very well. >> under adverse conditions. >> well, mr. heilmann, why didn't you do "way too early"? >> right. i don't think so. >> is it too early? >> yeah. >> seriously. >> 30 minutes. >> the usual thing. >> the usual thing. >> yeah. >> we can't talk about that, can we? >> no. >> okay. well, i'm going to get to the news which is going to start. >> is this chris christie? >> no, we're going to do that later. >> peter king? >> no, seriously? >> why aren't we starting there? >> i actually tried to bring it up several times yesterday, but apparently you need lawmakers ranting and just railing against congress in order to cover it. i was horrified yesterday. >> i thought chris christie gave -- wow! >> oh, now you're horrified beca

divide? tara dowdell, democratic strategist, with former jim mcgreevey and david webb, accident cirrus xm patriot radio. good to see both of you. i want to begin with this. last night on fox news, this is what south carolina senator lindsey graham had to say about this meeting today. he said, quote, anytime you announce a meeting publicly in washington it's usually for political theater purposes. so, tara, is this all show? >> well i agree, obviously there is always some political theater going on in politics. i would say this year's oscar though goes to john boehner for pretending toe be nexting in good faith. throughout this whole process he has been the primary person pointing fingers and the democrats offered several different, several different opportunities for the speaker to come to the table, compromise opportunities. most recently even agreeing to seen less tax revenue as part of the deal. so i think that the issue here is that it is going to be very difficult for the republicans to come behind a compromise plan which has tax increases and spending cuts which is really the bal

distribute them and companies of tomorrow will not get the funds they need to jim walton of walmart four million from dividends. they are top guys pulling the money out. when you look at investment dollars. we have seen so much fluxation in the stock market. stuart varney said it was an effort to cash out some of the money because they don't know what is happening next year. it proves the basic point. you raise taxes you are not raising revenues. most people will respond to thes . they are not sure and look at walmart. it is the walton family that is the richest family in the united states. they initially planned dividend pay out for january 2nd . uncertainty about the fiscal cliff. they are moving up it is yet another example of how we get around this. i would point out when companies are not paying out the dividends, it means we get waste we don't like. instead they spend on offices and private jets and otherwise they might have distributed those funds much >> yes. john tamny, have a great new years. >> and coming up on the show . how late is too late to get your kids eating right? >>

romney and jim messina tweeting condolences and the obama campaign shut down for the day when alex died. what was meaningful was it's unfathomable. he was of the age that swept obama into power. not politically silent, but somewhat motionless and actually came out in full force and helped create this identity and they were as much a part of it that they supported and it just seems profoundly unfair that he didn't make it to see at least the end of the 2012 election cycle. >> talk about the process of how newtown changed the complexion's content of the list. >> we added essentially a second cover to this issue. we use that to acknowledge the victims of newtown. to point out that this is a celebration of life. there is no way to express the horror and the that occurred in that tragedy. our decision to acknowledge newtown in a context that we gave it was simply the only meaning we can scribe to at this moment. we have meaning for decades and decades beyond that. this may impact obama's term, we don't know yet. we have to do it in the best way we could at this moment. >> i was in newto

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